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Politics of Author:
"Communist Sympathies"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
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"Jamaican"
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Work title:
"Memorial [from Harlem Shadows]"
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Literary Period:
"Modernism"
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"Twentieth Century"
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Date: 1922
"You yielded to my touch with gentle grace, / And though my passion was a mighty wave / That buried you beneath its strong embrace, / You were yet happy in the moment's grave."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Date: 1922
"The joy in your maturity at length, / The peace that filled my soul like cooling wine, / When you responded to my tender strength, / And pressed your heart exulting into mine."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Date: 1922
"How shall I with such memories of you / In coarser forms of love fruition find? / No, I would rather like a ghost pursue / The fairy phantoms of my lonely mind."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)